Travelogue

The name of the Nagzira forest is Navegaon-Nagzira Tiger Reserve while Navegaon Bandh, or Navegaon dam is the destination twin to Nagzira. Most tourists visit both as did Anindya and his group. But as I knew Navegaon to be mainly a dam-like very large lake with plenty of birds and cheetals, I dropped it. Let me be in undiluted Nagzira forest for the whole period, I decided...

These huge sand dunes are formed by heat of the sun and the wind forces and it was fascinating to watch how the fine sand moved under its own weight and flowed almost like water. The camels, carts and people left their tracks on the sand only to be obliterated by the wind in a short while...

After the sacred temples of Verinag and Anantnag, enjoying the views of corn fields, paddy fields, apple trees and walnut trees on both sides of the smooth road and the houses having typical red terraces, we reached Baktoot at about 4 pm. Baktoot used to be the starting point for Amarnath pilgrimage once upon a time...

We entered the Kashmir valley, the ‘paradise on earth’, on the second day of our trip. We had our first glimpse of the Kashmir valley after we crossed Banihal tunnel to reach our next place of night stay at Pahalgam via Batote, Ramban, Ramsoo, Banihal, Verinag and Anantnag...

Suddenly travel bug started biting. After a short discussion, we settled down to a five day visit to the Hersonissos beach town at Crete Island in Greece. No running around monuments and museums, no jostling with camera toting tourists, no shopping spree of global brands, only laze out and enjoy the sun and sand – this was our motto...

Best time to travel these places from April to October. April and May are the flowering season. The Gurudongmar area becomes very windy as the day progresses towards the noon and the weather becomes unpredictable...